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Archaeologists in Russia have actually uncovered a middle ages stockpile of 2,600 silver coins, consisting of more than 350 coins of a type never ever seen before. The stockpile might have been buried by a nobleman who later on came down with an afflict.

The coins were discovered in a sophisticated ceramic container, according to an Aug. 26 equated declaration from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The container was buried in a pit in what is now the historical center of Kolomna, a city about 71 miles (114 kilometers) southeast of the city of Moscow. In the 14th and 15th centuries, Kolomna was the second-most-important city in the area.

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